The man found guilty of murdering schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton is bidding to have his conviction overturned, it has emerged.
Peter Tobin, 62, was jailed for life and ordered to spend at least 30 years behind bars after being found guilty of abducting, drugging, sexually assaulting and killing the teenager more than 17 years ago.
He was branded "unfit to live in a decent society" by Judge Lord Emslie following the conviction last week at the High Court in Dundee.
Tobin is already serving a life sentence for raping and murdering Polish student Angelika Kluk and hiding her body in a Glasgow church in 2006.
Tobin has lodged a notice with the Court of Appeal in Edinburgh, stating that he intends to appeal against the conviction for murdering Vicky.
He also plans to challenge the sentence, which was one of the stiffest ever imposed by a Scottish court.
Vicky disappeared in Bathgate, West Lothian, on the evening of February 10 1991. The schoolgirl was waiting for a bus in the town centre to take her home to her mother in Redding, near Falkirk, after visiting her sister Sharon in Livingston, West Lothian.
Her bisected remains were dug up from a shallow grave in a garden in Margate, Kent, last year.
Tobin was unanimously found guilty of Vicky's murder after the month-long trial in Dundee.
During the trial, prosecutor Frank Mulholland QC, Scotland's solicitor-general, described the murder as "a barbaric act" and an "atrocity".
